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I've been involved in many professional development activities and this is by far the best one I've ever done

Chelen Johnson

BINAP 2025

BINAP 2025

BINAP is the BIg Nitarp Alumni Project

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Our Participants Talk About NITARP

  • Keeton

    The experience I had at the 2012 AAS meeting as well as the entire NITARP experience will change the way I teach astronomy. Having spent 5 days meeting and discussing authentic scietific research with so many people from many different facilities was extremely rejuvinating as an educator.

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    Seeing and hearing about scientists at work, on different projects, brought to life the reality of scientists doing scientific work.

  • Odden

    I love learning about the myriad ways astronomers figure out how to make lemonade out of lemons. It almost seems like cheating sometimes, but it isn't. Astronomers are just so crafty when it comes to figuring out how to make the best use of the data they have.